Quarrel · HackerLangs

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

FWIW I think Acemoglu writes very well & I loved his book "Why Nations Fail" for introducing lots of interesting ideas to me, while also helping me understand my own (non-failed) society better.

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قبل 12 يومًاdiscuss

conductor.build is Mac only ..

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قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

and, as the articles points out, it is literally out of copyright.

For profit journals need to die.

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قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

The earliest Roman records of Slavs are of the Veneti, who lived in roughly western Ukraine, Belarus, south-east Poland.

Very much in Europe.

Then, like now, they were the people east of the German speakers.

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قبل 18 يومًاdiscuss

TFA:

    npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/report.html" --password "your-password" --json
    npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/report.html" --no-password --json   # remove it

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قبل 24 يومًاdiscuss

Ah, thanks, yeah, I just looked it up.

I had no idea.

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قبل 24 يومًاdiscuss

Mistral have moved to actually trying to make money, and been relatively successful; at least if we lived in a normal world.

They've got a heap of contractors working to help industry adopt LLMs. It is just classic consulting work, and they'd look like a really great company if we weren't comparing them to literal $2T+ companies losing money hand-over-fist...

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قبل 24 يومًاdiscuss

Everytime I see people talking about the length of their coastlines ...

Look at how long this edge of my fractal is, Ma!

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قبل 25 يومًاdiscuss

err?

afaik Bellard never had any beef with Burger Becky. Both are legendary programmers, but somewhat different eras.

I have no idea what you're suggesting.

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قبل 26 يومًاdiscuss

I basically was ready to come on and make a snarky comment like this. "I wrote one in the '90s!".

and then I saw the examples, and the feature set. I particularly like the blender-to-Luz export.

It seems great. Good luck to OP.

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قبل 26 يومًاdiscuss

how are you sourcing your proxies?

the vast majority seems to be pretty unethical, and many of those that aren't overtly so, seem to not always be nice.

There are decent reasons people want to KYC residential proxy users ...

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قبل 26 يومًاdiscuss

Of course it can. They can license the code for use under almost any terms they like, including restricting how you use the code.

The GPL imposes conditions on your use of the code / program, as does the MIT License. If you don't follow the conditions then you do not have a license to use the program / code & are open to claims of copyright infringement.

You might choose to ignore the licenses on the code you use, but it certainly isn't a great idea in a commercial context (and in your personal projects probably just a moral dilemma). Although, sadly, I'm not sure any of the many public GPL violations have really "cost" the companies that did them all that much.

Edit: I guess you're saying, yes, you can just go ahead and use it. Which I guess is the position large LLM training corpuses have taken ..

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قبل 27 يومًاdiscuss

> The Chinese models are censored (too?).

This is MUCH less of an issue if they're providing the weights though.

They can still be fine-tuned & ablated.

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قبل 28 يومًاdiscuss

Which is quite the contrast to Mercedes new axial flux electric motor, which goes all in on rare earths- the design relies on the highest end high-grade permanent magnets.

Still, presumably Mercedes ambitions are for few motors than BMW or Renault.

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قبل 29 يومًاdiscuss

I'm a Terence Tao fan, but yes, OpenAI should at the very least just be telling him to go crazy with the latest models on our dime.

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I liked this article because it helped me understand the javacript engine flow better than I had.

The rust flow is so much more natural to me.

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I moved to the UK in 2016.

The public sector, simple, no frills, accessible, no flashy graphics, websites were a massive eye-opener.

They just worked. They had a job. They did it. I wasn't going to buy more from them because of it, and they didn't care. It was great.

I've heard that recently they've dismantled the centralised team that wrote all the rules, enforced it, and started moving to decentralised hosting, but so far the whole still seems to hold to together really well. I think, I hope, they have embedded the expectation that the local council, the tax office, your visa status, etc, should just be utilitarian in nature, and work for everyone.

I worry how long it will last...

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

Damnit. No WFH option.

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

> 3. AI Companies will be profitable

but many of the current crop will never return money to investors.

I largely agree with you, but the huge investments currently being made will be very hard to get a return on. Token costs will come down, performance will go up, and you want to be in the business of selling the picks & shovels, not doing the mining.

Which is of course why nvidia, google & TSMC are in pretty good positions, but even their valuations have some bubble in them.

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

Thanks very much for this- I had not seen it.

It does not paint a pretty picture, and I did not know this context.

Perhap the tridge I knew is also of the past, but I hope not.

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